The Delegate Fight: 2016

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The first post says the total number of Nevada delegates is 50 but I think it's 30?

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Maryland: Trump 29 - Cruz 3 - Kasich 6
Another unclear one, but Trump should benefit from a divided field. Cruz maybe picks up the panhandle CD, while Kasich takes a couple of DC metro CDs.

Chuck Todd's team seemed to think Trump will do badly in MD because of how badly he did in DC. He did win VA though so I'm not sure what to make of it.

Erc I think you're wrong:

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If he gets 50%, he wins all the delegates. NY is a winner take most state.

The Green Papers says it's by CD as well as a small slate that's statewide.

http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P16/NY-R

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EDIT: PSA: Don't go on Trump Twitter if you value your faith in humanity.

And it's actually gotten much tamer in the last few weeks.

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I just heard that during the convention, the delegates are unbound when voting for a VP candidate.  Meaning that if Trump wins the nomination on the first ballot, his #NeverTrump delegates could defect and nominate a VP candidate that Trump is forced to accept. 

That's an interesting scenario.

They could nominate Sarah "I can see Russia from my house" Palin.

She never said that. She said you can see Russia from Alaska which is true.

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So if Trump clinches on the 1st ballot but Cruz has a majority on the floor in Cleveland, Cruz effectively gets to set the 2020 delegate rules, right?  And he would obviously consider himself the next-in-line for the nomination.  So look for Texas to have 750 delegates awarded WTA to the statewide winner in 2020, while the all of the Northeast states combined get to elect 200 formally unpledged delegates at conventions, with convention meetings to be held from 1-7 am on a Monday morning in the least populous county in each state?

In the primary yesterday, Democrats received 66.4% of the vote in  Rhode Island; 66.0% in Maryland; 60.7% in Connecticut; 57.7% in Delaware; and 51.5% in Pennsylvania.

Why should any of the states other than Pennsylvania have any delegates?

Because there are Republicans in those states and they get to have a say in who their nominee is. This isn't obviated by an overdominance of democrats in those states.